![]() ![]() ![]() Her most recent book on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC's Stories : The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (2020), published during the pandemic, won the 2021 C. She has supervised 40 PhD students to successful completion across the subject areas that interlink across her research and publications. The methodologies she deploys include archival work, memory studies, and oral history. Her research in US culture encompasses history and literature, cinema, journalism and media and visual cultures, print and periodicals through which she explores the materiality of racism and class and ethnicity. Much of her work has been focused on the US South where she has held fellowships. Professor Monteith’s interdisciplinary research focuses primarily on activism, including literary activism in the long African American freedom struggle and the civil rights movement. A further 30 Corresponding Fellows elected are from universities in South Africa, Germany, Australia and India, as well as four Honorary Fellows. Professor Monteith is among 86 new Fellows of which 52 are academics based at 29 UK universities. Previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb. It is a funding body for high-quality research and a forum for debate and public engagement.Ĭurrent Fellows include classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill. It is a Fellowship of 1,600 of the leading minds in the UK and overseas in Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE) disciplines. Distinguished Professor becomes NTU’s first elected to the British AcademyĪ Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History has become Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) first academic to be elected to the British Academy.ĭistinguished Professor Sharon Monteith, of the School of Arts and Humanities, was elected to the prestigious organisation following its annual general meeting yesterday (Thursday 20 July).įounded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. ![]()
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